Febvre on a brilliant podium in Lommel


Romain Febvre after only 3/4 weeks on the bike putin a brilliant performance at Lommel to make the podium with a late race pass on Tim Gajser for third in race two. Febvre has become very fast in the sand the last few years but with so little time on the bike, his speed at the end of race two was impressive!

Get his thoughts on his weekend below:

“Sunday was good, but yesterday, somehow, just to make it short,  we just changed the bike before I got injured, before France, and then to be better on the hard pack. So actually, the bike was better on the hard pack, but we could not try this in the sand – and then I got injured.

“I started to ride a little bit, but my pace was not how it was today. And then just when we came, actually this week we were testing, that was not so, yeah, going good. And then just yesterday, I was just struggling big time, like I could not find the flow, like the results showed. I decided to just go back to where I started the season, where I was good with, even if I did not feel like 100% physically, but yeah, anyway, my goal was to just to get some flow. And then somehow, today, I managed to do it really well. 

T”he first moto, I got a punch wide on the first turn, and then just ride outside, and then I was quite far back, and came back fourth, so I was happy with it. The second one, I took a really good start, I was second or third, and then, yeah, I was third, and then passed second, and then just maybe two laps or three laps after, I just crashed after the finish line! So I was like, ‘wow, like it’s going to be tough physically to go again,’ you know? And then somehow I found the flow on the track, and then I wasn’t exhausted at the end! It was a good operation, and I’m happy to be back on the box after five weeks out.”

“I did everything I could when I was injured, like actually I was doing more sports because I could not ride, but yeah, you can do everything you want, but when you jump on the bike,  you feel like it’s so hard to ride, you know, because it’s so physically demanding. So yeah, like said, the goal was just to get the flow on the track, and then once you have the flow and you are not fighting with the track or the bike, then it’s so much more easier, it’s maybe two times easier, and then once you go in the hole and everything, then it’s just like ten seconds slower! So yeah, I find the flow today, and I was really happy about it.”